Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings is partnering with New York-based enterprise blockchain software firm R3 to establish a joint venture in January 2019. Japanese news outlet Nikkei reported that SBI Group is expanding its partnership with R3 to create a joint venture that would promote the use of R3’s Corda blockchain. The partnership would…

SBI Ripple Asia, the Tokyo-based joint enterprise of SBI Holdings and Ripple, has registered as a substitute agent for electronic settlement with the Ministry of Finance bureau in the region of Kantou. This is the first step in the process of legally implementing the blockchain-based ‘MoneyTap’ service in Japan. Join the Leading Industry Event! Inter-bank…

SBI Crypto Investments of Tokyo has purchased 12 percent of Clear Markets of North Carolina as part of its goal of opening a cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform that caters to institutions, according to the Nikkei Asian Review. The players SBI Crypto Investments is a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, which is itself a subsidiary of SBI…

Japanese financial institution SBI Holdings is formally launching the world’s first bank-backed digital currency exchange. Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings said on Tuesday that its in-house digital currency trading platform VCTRADE is now online, paving the way for the world’s first bank-backed crypto exchange. SBI Holdings made the announcement on its website on Tuesday saying…

Fidelity Investments, one of the world’s biggest asset management companies, is to open a cryptocurrency exchange, according to a report in Business Insider. Citing anonymous sources, the report says that the company is advertising for a programmer to “engineer, create and deploy a Digital Asset exchange to both a public and private cloud.” The sources…

According to an official press release, SBI Crypto Investment has made a strategic investment in Potamus Holdings. Potamus Holdings is the parent company of Potamus Trading, which is a broker-dealer which offers trading infrastructure. SBI Crypto Investment is a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, a provider of inter-based financial services. Potamus Holdings is based in Boston and SBI…